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Paul Ferguson
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Jesus Hermaphrodite: Science and Sex Difference in Premodern Europe by L DeVun:

http://google.umn.edu/search?q=Jesus+Hermaphrodite&site=campus_morris&client=campus_morris&proxystylesheet=campus_morris&output=xml_no_dtd


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I find the bit about rebus' interesting:

Latin alchemists


such as Constantine of Pisa and Richardus Anglicus attempted to decipher


the word, apparently a transliteration of a still-unknown Arabic term.


Richardus interpreted ‘‘rebis’’ as an abbreviation for ‘‘res bina,’’ or ‘‘two


thing,’’ which he identified with the philosophers’ stone, and which many


subsequent alchemists understood as a hermaphrodite.21

So we still don't know where the word comes from?  Someone do some research, quick!



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